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Word: wellses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Celebrating his 70th birthday at London's P.E.N. Club banquet, said H. G. Wells: "I just hate it. I feel like a youngster sitting on the floor with all my games spread out before me. . . . It is as if my nurse were coming to me to say: 'Bertie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 26, 1936 | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

In contemporary sentimental fiction, the benign character of the aged grandmother who holds the family together, counsels the young, comforts the wretched and looks out upon life's kaleidoscopic panorama with eyes dimmed but kindly, has become one of the most popular characters in stock. But in Great Laughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gregrannie | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

The summary in the order of finishing with handicaps in times: Won by A. J. Horne '40, 3m; second, J. D. Lightbody '40, 5m. 30 secs., third, W. H. Magill '40, 5m. 30 s, fourth, W. P. Tuttle '40, 3m; fifth, E. V. Clark '40, 3m; E. M. Thayer '37...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIVE FRESHMEN LEAD FIELD IN UNIVERSITY CROSS COUNTRY MEET | 10/17/1936 | See Source »

THE ANATOMY OF FRUSTRATION-H. G. Wells-Macmillan ($2). Typical Wells item, describing the philosophical work of a future thinker, an erudite and daring U. S. industrialist whose ideas on the obstacles to human progress are more familiar than Author Wells seems willing to admit.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Oct. 12, 1936 | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

Enrollment in Economics A jumped to 713 students yesterday as a rush of Freshmen and upperclassmen stormed the Boylston Reading room and Holyoke offices of Harold H. Burbank, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy and head of the course. More startling, the supremacy of History 1, for years the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: History 1 Supremacy Threatened As Ec Enrollment Reaches 713 | 9/30/1936 | See Source »

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